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🏡 Flood Hits Northwest Iowa (And More Coming)
The newsletter for Iowa’s working class Share with a friend It’s Wednesday, June 26, 2024. I was planning to write about the Iowa governor vs. labor this week: Gov. Kim Reynolds was to appear in North Liberty Monday after the federal government cracked down on restaurants following Iowa’s lax child labor laws, which go…
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❗️Gov. Reynolds Is Mad A Judge Just Blocked This Law
The newsletter for Iowa’s working class Share with a friend It’s Wednesday, June 19, 2024. “As a matter of politics, the new legislation might be defensible. As a matter of constitutional law, it is not.” That’s US District Judge Stephen Locher, issuing a temporary injunction against Iowa’s SF 2340. It’s a win for the…
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🪧 This Law is ‘Absurd Political Theater’
The newsletter for Iowa’s working class Share with a friend It’s Wednesday, June 12, 2024. Recent Iowa immigrants and allies are still fighting against an Iowa immigration law they say unfairly discriminates against and targets them. Lawyers with the US Department of Justice and the American Immigration Council argued in court Monday that a…
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🦺 Iowa Construction Worker Killed on I-80
News for working Iowans Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, May 29, 2024. An Iowa highway worker was killed on Interstate 80 near Weston, Iowa, earlier this month. Matthew Dickerson, 36, of Neola was working to patch holes in the left lane of eastbound I-80 on May 16…
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⚖️ Immigrant Groups Warned This Was Coming
News for working Iowans Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, May 15, 2024. After immigrants and their allies held marches and vigils in four Iowa cities to protest SF 2340, a few promised lawsuits were coming. Now, they’re here. The first lawsuit was filed May 9…
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👀 Another Iowa Starbucks Unionizing
News for working Iowans Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. Happy National Teacher Appreciation Week and National Nurses Week! It’s Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Recent-immigrant Iowans worried, upset, and angry with a new law held vigils in four Iowa cities last week. Big crowds came out to Davenport, Des…
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4 Iowa Vigils for International Workers’ Day
News for working Iowans Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Happy May Day, aka, International Workers’ Day! (Read about why the US government doesn’t want to recognize it.) If you want to show solidarity for your fellow workers—especially immigrant Iowans working in some of the…
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Who Here Is In a Union?
News for working Iowans The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, Apr. 17, 2024. It’s spring! Summer, maybe, with the temperatures last weekend? In any case, spring always (because I’m a masochist I guess) makes me think of spring cleaning, renewal, and reaffirmation of what I’m doing and why. So: I’m extending…
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War On Workers Is Over (If You Want It)
News for working Iowans The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2024. Democrats may be in the minority in the Iowa Legislature, but that doesn’t mean they’re not still trying to pass meaningful legislation to help Iowa’s workers. This year, that includes an Iowa House proposal to amend the Iowa Constitution…
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Activists Promise an Iowa Immigrant Worker Strike
News for working Iowans Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2024. Today at noon, unionized graduate students at the University of Iowa are interrupting the university’s “One Day for Iowa” fundraising push at the Pentacrest. The reason? Ending the fees they call “paying to work.” (petition…
